True Grit: The phenomenal growth of the Indian entrepreneurial spirit
From JRD Tata to Dhirubhai Ambani and Sanjeev Bikhchandani, how entrepreneurs helped India through its transition from an agrarian economy to state-controlled industry and on to an era where unicorns have taken the centrestage
By: Madhu Kapparath
Ushering in social entrepreneurship was the milk co-operative trio Tribhuvandas Kishibai Patel, Dr Verghese Kurien and HM Dalaya. Amul was born in response to the exploitation of marginal milk producers by traders and agents. Dalaya’s innovation of making skim milk powder with the world’s first buffalo milk spray-dryer was a technological breakthrough that revolutionised India’s organised dairy industry.
